Cover of The Debt to Pleasure

The Debt to Pleasure

a novel

by John Lanchester

1996 240 pages eng ★ 3.2 (4 ratings)

An Englishman of indeterminate age whose spiritual home has always been France, Tarquin embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of a menu, from the perverse history of the…

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